Trouble reading DVD+ discs on Pioneer 106D

[Dante101]

Hoping someone could help me or at least tell me why I'm having this problem:

I just bought a Pioneer 106D. It seems to work fine, but a friend sent me some DVDs the other day, and I can't seem to copy some of them.

The discs he sent me are Verbatim DVD+. Most of the discs mounted okay on my desktop, and I could copy them by dragging the video TS folders onto my hard drive, or by using Toast to create a disc image; but on a few of his discs, I'd get a "This disk is unreadable by this computer" message in the Finder, and Toast doesn't see them at all.

I've tried copying them in OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2.8, and I've used my Pioneer drive and the drive that came with the computer (Phillips CDD5101 CD-RW/DVD-ROM). When using OS X, I'm using Toast 6, and it still doesn't work on those few discs.

These discs play fine in my standalone DVD player.

Any ideas before I go ahead and re-capture/re-encode/re-burn these discs manually?

[Vintageman]

May need to update to 10.3.3. It reads DVD+ disk. 10.28 does not. Also make sure it's not a RW disk. That can cause problems. And checkout YadeX it works on some problem disk. And of course there's also MacThe Ripper. Good Luck!

[galactica]

agreed
1. rather than drag drop try to rip it out with a dvd ripper [since it mounts]
2. still no luck, you got to update to 10.3.3 which adds dvd+r support [especially so in dvd player!]

[phase52001]

Hi;

Thats exactly what happened to me. (See: "DVD+R copy/clone to DVD+R"). Same message and same problems.

Oddly enough I can playback DVD+Rs under 10.2.8.
No idea why, but cannot copy to HD.

Many Thanks for the suggestions to fix.

Jay R.

[jaytbird]

Odd that you could do some and not others.....maybe media problems?

[motherwell]

Are DVD+R better than DVD-R?

If I ask salespeople at the store I will get a different answer from everyone.

[galactica]

which is what you will get here also.

look at it this way..
1. can you burn to +r? if not, dont even ponder the thought
2. if you can burn to +r then its totally up to you.

look to the media forum for endless amounts of arguments on which is better.